FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 30 January 2021 – The National School of Midwifery today held its thirty-fourth graduation ceremony for 102 state certified midwives after they completed 18 months of intensive training in midwifery. The theme for this year’s graduation ceremony was “Midwives with Women: Celebrate Demonstrate, Mobilise and Unite – Our time is now!” Keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony, Acting Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Anthony Augustine Sandi, commended midwives for their integral role in reducing maternal and newborn mortality in the country. He said, “Their work remains crucial in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.” He also conveyed the government’s appreciation to development partners such as the United Nations Population Fund...Read More
Andrew Modupeh Bonnie, commonly known as Modumili, a local musician in the west of Freetown, has on Saturday January 30, 2021 released a song titled ‘Ar Nor Bin Know’ alongside its video. According to Modumili, the song educates and inspires people on how they could develop their societies. He said that the song also shape the mind-set of the youths. “This song came about as a result of what is...Read More
The Initiatives for Destitutes Empowerment and Sustainability (IDES) has on Saturday January 30, 2021, fed and provided clothes for children of scavengers mainly engaged collecting empty water sachets and other plastic wastes deposited at the Bomeh dumpsite in Kingtom. It should be noted that people collect plastic wastes at Bomeh dumpsite amidst the stench of rotten waste, excreta, mosquitoes, and carbon mono oxide. The plastics which they gather will then...Read More
The Christian Lawyers Centre, also known as LEGAL LINK in this piece, has expressed concern over the prolonged detention of the 2018 flag-bearer of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray who is standing trial on allegations of sexually penetrating a 15-year-old girl in Kono district. Kamarainba Mansaray reported to the police on July 2020, and has been in detention since. “We strongly aver that the prolonged detention of...Read More
Several communities in Tenenba, a section of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District northern Sierra Leone, have benefitted from eight water wells funded by stakeholders in the community. According to Kabir Sumah, an elder in Tenenba, the beneficiary communities had been without water from boreholes for decades with their inhabitants drawing water from rivers, streams and dams instead. Sumah explained that previously water which they drew from the streams either gets...Read More
